Justin Amash's absolutely amazing victory speech — Politicians who win campaigns, no matter how dirty, will almost always kiss and make up with their political opponents in their election-night speeches. — Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), of course, is not your average politician.

A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS — A humanitarian crisis that could turn into genocide is taking place right now in the mountains of northwestern Iraq. It hasn't made the front page, because the place and the people are obscure, and there's a lot of other horrible news to compete with.

America's Fed Up: Obama Approval Rating Hits New Low — Yet because this discontent differs - among Democrats, Republicans, and independents - Hart cautions that Americans still aren't likely to be storming the polls on Election Day in November. — “We're unhappy, but we aren't coalescing around an issue,” he said.

A Modest Proposal — WASHINGTON — Enough with all the phony impeachment talk. — Onward to a real impeachment! — In the absurdist capital we live in, it would be good for all sides — in ways you may not have considered. — President Obama's threat to bypass obstinate Republican lawmakers …

McDaniel staffer drawn into Fielder controversy (UPDATE) — Stephen Fielder, the self-proclaimed pastor from Meridian, says a member of Chris McDaniel's campaign paid him $2,000 to give an interview in which he accused a Thad Cochran campaign staffer of asking him to pay people to vote for the GOP incumbent.

$619 billion missed from federal transparency site — WASHINGTON — A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found. — And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate …

How Pat Roberts beat Milton Wolf — The Republican establishment's latest triumph over tea party activists in a Senate primary this year — Pat Roberts' narrower-than-expected win over challenger Milton Wolf on Tuesday night — came with a big lift from party headquarters in Washington.

Are we facing a GOP takeover in 2014? — Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise, and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine …

U.S. policymakers gird for rash of corporate expatriations — Washington policymakers are bracing for a wave of corporations to renounce their U.S. citizenship over the next few months, depriving the federal government of billions of dollars in tax revenue and stoking public outrage ahead of the Nov. 4 congressional elections.

Intellectual hubris hampers presidential geniuses — It's now two and a half years to the can't-come-too-soon end of President Obama's adventure, but his legacy seems to be settled already; he is the smartest man in all of U.S. history to screw up so many big things. — That he is brilliant is something we already knew.

New Washington Post project discloses fabrications from a source — The Washington Post's “Storyline” project has posted a bruising editor's note on a story about black men and HIV: … As laid out in its initial posting, “Storyline” hovers where people and policy mingle: “We care about policy as experienced by people across America.